Sexual harassment cases were proliferating. Out of sixty employees, only eight of her colleagues were women. People were speaking of tech startups as surveillance companies.
She felt like part of the future.īut a tide was beginning to turn. She had a healthy income for the first time in her life. Leaving her business casual skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she began working in company-branded T-shirts. Within a year she had moved to Silicon Valley to take up a job at a data analytics startup in San Francisco. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s phone had worn thin. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building.‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit ‘Impossibly pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino ‘This is essential reading’ StylistĪt twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing.
She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress.Īnna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener - stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial - left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books Of 2020Ī New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
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